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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1490486" data-attributes="member: 99">About this most recent update, let me just say, "Wow!"  Very gripping and exciting and they haven't even got to the best part yet.  I'm starting to guess, and I say this in all seriousness, that your story hour is moving from being merely "great" toward being one of the "classics".  I could easily see you getting a following along the lines of (contact)'s RttToEE or Wulf Ratbane's original story hour.No pressure or anything, but keep up the good work.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I've seen all of those except for When Trumpets Fade.  the Big Red One is one of my favorite war movies.  It's starting to look pretty dated, but you've got to love any movie that puts Lee Marvin in charge of Luke Skywalker.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I wasn't really serious about that, led.  I actually think that Schwimmer is permanently damaged by his role on Friends and is suitable for little besides being despised at this point. I agree with you that where Ambrose really excels is in his ability to find the parts of history that appeal to the reader most dramatically and relating them in a way that makes the reader feel personally involved in their struggle.  I first started reading his books with Undaunted Courage, recommended by my wife's grandmother.  Great book for giving you an understanding of what day to day life is like for an expedition headed into unknown wilderness.  I shall forever remember those involved with the Louis and Clark expedition for their courage, ingenouity and capacity to consume huge amounts of protien (most of the members of the expedition consumed a minimum of 8 pounds of meat each day  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ).But what really made Ambrose one of my most read authors was his book on D-Day.  After seeing Saving Private Ryan and the horror that was Omaha beach, all I could think was "What were they thinking?!"  So I went out to get a book about it and Ambrose's was the one I picked.  After that I quickly read through most of his WWII books, including Band of Brothers and Victors.  I was thrilled when I heard about HBO doing their miniseries on Band of Brothers.One thing that always gets me (and which I think is a huge strength of the series) is the actual men of Easy Company who lead off each segment of the story with their personal accounts of the war.  It is too easy to forget that the actors are portraying a version of events that actually took place and that real people were in that situation, fighting and dying.  And it is utterly jarring when one of the "main characters", the Tocoah men who started out with the company, is suddenly killed.  It feels so un-cinematic that it can't help but remind you that you're not really watching a movie but really a documentary.Anyway, enough about Band of Brothers.  Clearly you've paid close attention to detail and it shows in your excellent story hour, ledded.  I obviously can't wait for more and I think you deserve big kudos for what you've accomplished so far.One final question:  Being as how you live in the Gulf Coast region (albeit in northern Alabama), have you paid a visit to the D-Day museum in New Orleans?  I may be headed down south later this year and if I make it to Louisiana, I'm definately dropping in there.</blockquote>

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